Jon and Blaine look at an episode that connects the TOS adventure “The Doomsday Machine” to the Borg of TNG using the TNG era crew.
Category Archives: Books
Mission to Horatius / Blish Adaptations 1-3
Jon and Blaine discuss four different books in this episode. First up, it’s Mission to Horatius, the first original Star Trek story to appear in print, aimed at readers who have recently learned how to print. Then we cover the first three collections of episode adaptations by James Blish, simply titled Star Trek 1-3.
Watch for our introductory episode and our coverage of Vendetta on this same day. As an odd numbered episode of the podcast, we are looking at books in publication order.
Introductory episode
Jon and Blaine talk about why we are doing this podcast and what listeners can expect.
RIP Jane Yolen (1939-2026)
Yolen’s Dragon’s Blood was probably my first Sci-Fi book ever (grabbed it after watching the CBS Storybreak episode). Yolen wrote over 40 novels, mostly YA science fiction.
Star Trek Reading Hour Trailer (version B)
The trailer for our podcast which launches on September 8, 2026.
Star Trek Reading Hour Trailer (version A)
A trailer for our upcoming show, launching on September 8, 2026.
Book Review: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
After I killed my wife, I had twenty hours before her new body finished printing downstairs.
Kim Fu, rising literary star (For Today I am a Boy, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore), has written a collection of short stories that mostly fall into SF/fantasy/horror genres, reminiscent of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror.
Novel Review: Sea of Tranquility
No star burns forever.
Emily St. John Mandel has always played with genre. The post-apocalyptic Station Eleven won accolades in both literary and SF circles, while Glass Hotel, a novel about a Ponzi Scheme, brushed against the edges of SF and Fantasy.
Some of Glass Hotel‘s characters reappear in her most recent novel, while the ghosts of Station Eleven haunt the book. It’s a time-travel story, set in pasts, presents, and futures.
Novel Review: Piranesi
In 2020, award-winning author Susanna Clarke published this slender but monumental novel about a man living in a vast labyrinth filled with many statues and a few dead bodies, and pervaded with mystery.
Cover Reveal: Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories
A collection of my short fiction, old and new, will be released in March. Today the publisher unveiled the cover, with great original art by Dan Barrick.